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Fashion At Work: Danny Roberts

Artist Danny Roberts captures the allure of fashion's who's who with his sought-after, style-obsessed portraits.When Danny Roberts started drawing wide-eyed portraits of models back in art school, fashion served as "a doorway into a dream...

Artist Danny Roberts captures the allure of fashion’s who’s who with his sought-after, style-obsessed portraits.When Danny Roberts started drawing wide-eyed portraits of models back in art school, fashion served as "a doorway into a dream...[#image: /photos/5582bce8a28d9d4e05415716]||||||Artist Danny Roberts captures the allure of fashion’s who’s who with his sought-after, style-obsessed portraits.

__When Danny Roberts started drawing wide-eyed portraits of models back in art school, fashion served as "a doorway into a dream world" for the native Californian. Now 24, he has since walked right through it, embraced by the very insiders he depicts, including Karl Lagerfeld and plucked-from-the-runway beauties. "I look for people who have something I feel I can capture on paper," Danny explains of his subjects. His next-big-thing status has led to industry friendships and coveted collaborations, like a recent partnership with creative powerhouse Gwen Stefani, who invited Danny to contribute artwork for her Harajuku Lovers line. "Getting that e-mail and discovering Gwen Stefani was reading my blog [Igor & André] was pretty bizarre," admits the artist, who is anything but jaded by all the high-profile attention. "Seeing my bags in Bloomingdale’s was a trip. The day they came out, my whole family went and took pictures!" So how might he react to one day spotting his own fashion label in stores? Danny--who founded a T-shirt company as a teen and studied fashion design in college--hopes to find out. "The work I’m doing now is kind of a roundabout way of getting there. I’ll probably end up starting my own label eventually, but for now I’m keeping a notebook of clothing designs, just for fun." --Evonne Gambrell